Shin Sung-chul, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shin Sung-chul

South Korean scientist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1952

Place of Birth: Daejeon, South Korea

Profession: physicist

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Shin Sung-chul (Korean: ???; born July 19, 1952) is a South Korean physicist and the 16th president of KAIST.
Shin was the first president of DGIST since it changed its form from a research institute to a university in 2011.
His main research areas as a scientist are spintronics and nanomagnetism.
As of June 2014, Shin is the founding president of DGIST university, Fellow Professor of University of Ulsan, a member of Presidential Advisory Council on Science & Technology (PACST), the chair of Committee for Future Strategy, PACST, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society(APS).